Commerce links all mankind in one common brotherhood of mutual dependence and interests.

Honesty is the best policy, says the familiar axiom; but people who are honest on that principle defraud no one but themselves.

In the long, fierce struggle for freedom of opinion, the press, like the Church, counted its martyrs by thousands.

Heroes did not make our liberties; they but reflected and illustrated them.

Great ideas travel slowly, and for a time noiselessly, as the gods whose feet were shod with wool.

Whoever controls the volume of money in our country is absolute master of all industry and commerce...when you realize that the entire system is very easily controlled, one way or another, by a few powerful men at the top, you will not have to be told how periods of inflation and depression originate.

Light itself is a great corrective. A thousand wrongs and abuses that are grown in darkness disappear, like owls and bats, before the light of day.